Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Is it a classic?

Background | Year of Release | Media | Mini-Reivew | The Result

  • System: GameCube
  • Developer: Nintendo
  • Publisher: Nintendo
  • Players: 1-8
  • Save: Card
  • Genre: Racing

Background

The Mario Kart series is back to offer up some fun multiplayer action. This is the fourth Mario Kart game of the series and the first one to appear on the Nintendo GameCube. This is the second GameCube game to be released with LAN capabilities. LAN mode supports up to 8 players on 8 TV screens.

Year of Release

North America: 11/17/2003
Japan: 11/07/2003
Europe: 11/14/2003

Media

Screeshots: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

Mini-Review

Mario Kart Double Dash!! is essentially the typical get-what-you-would-expect kind of game. It's got fun single player modes and an excellent multiplayer mode. The game contains sharp graphics and sound plus the excellent control that is always present in Mario Kart games.

This game contains a few new ideas to add some freshness to the series. First, in this game, you control two characters at once; this allows one character to drive and the other uses items. You can swap characters during the race so that you can hold two items. The second is the option to have two players control one kart. The premise is simple, one player drives the kart, and the second player uses items. The two players per kart option is nice for people with smaller TVs that want to get a three or four person game going because the television screen will not be divided into unbearably small partitions. Third is that the item system has been slightly re-worked from the other games. This game contains "higher-level intelligence" red-shells (the same ones that exist in Super Circuit). Furthermore, each character has there very own special item such as a huge banana for DK and Diddy Kong and a stream of fireballs for Mario and Luigi.

Overall, while there isn't much new to this Mario Kart game, there isn't much wrong with it either. I believe that Nintendo can safely make a Mario Kart game every three years or so without having the franchise go stale.

Score - 9.0

The Result

It's not a classic!

 

Page by Player Guy Forever

02/01/2004

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